Vito Corleone is the moral center of the film. He is old, wise and opposed to dealing in drugs. He understands that society is not alarmed by "liquor, gambling .... even women." But drugs are a dirty business to Don Vito, and one of the movie's best scenes is the mafia summit at which he argues his point. The implication is that in the godfather's world there would be no drugs, only "victimless crimes" and justice would be dispatched evenly and swiftly.
Roger Ebert
(on The Godfather 1972)
1997
I may be wrong - i have been about so many things - but i can't recall ever hearing or knowing of a son-of-a-bitch who did not do all right for himself. I'm talking about real sons-of-bitches, understand. The grade-A, double distilled, steam-heated variety. You take a man like that, a son-of-a-bitch who doesn't fight it - who knows what he is and gives his all to it - and you've really got something.
Jim Thompson
Nothing Man
1954
The truth is a snare ; you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Jack Vettriano
La Bete Humaine
